| LV= County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens Cardiff (day 4) |
| Derbyshire 450-8 dec: Reece 139, Visitor 96 & 234-2 dec: Reece 119*, Got here 57; Carlson 2-55 |
| Glamorgan 301-5 dec: Ingram 82; Thomson 4-97 & 134-6 Byrom 32; Chappell 2-19, Thomson 2-33 |
| Glamorgan (8 pts) drew with Derbyshire (9 pts) |
| Match scorecard |
A collection of data for Derbyshire opening batter Luis Reece was the ultimate day spotlight as Glamorgan held out for a attract Cardiff.
The house aspect battled grimly to 134-6 after turning down a demanding chase of 384 in 70 overs.
Spinner Alex Thomson posed their foremost risk with 2-33 in 26 overs.
Earlier, Reece hit his fourth century of the season towards Glamorgan to go 1,000 runs, making his seventh successive rating of 50-plus.
Glamorgan end fifth in Division Two after recording 12 attracts to go along with their win and loss towards promoted Worcestershire, in Matthew Maynard’s last season in cost.
In the meantime winless Derbyshire, who’ve signed Glamorgan captain David Lloyd for 2024 with their very own captain Leus du Plooy departing for Middlesex, are sixth.
Reece’s runs marked the primary time any county participant had scored 4 centuries towards the identical opposition in a summer season. He additionally joined an elite record of gamers to have achieved seven successive fifties on two events – together with the likes of Don Bradman, Dilip Vengsarkar, Len Hutton, Walter Hammond and CB Fry,
Derbyshire’s openers continued their dominance over Glamorgan with a stand of 132 earlier than Harry Got here was bowled for 57 by Kiran Carlson, who then had Brooke Visitor caught for seven.
Du Plooy was on 38 not out and Reece 119, with Glamorgan’s fielders clearly sad that they had gone on so lengthy, when Du Plooy known as a halt.
It was quickly evident the house aspect had been unwilling to chase 5.48 runs per over, however they suffered common wobbles regardless of the batters being in management for a lot of the match.
Zain Ul Hassan was leg-before to Alex Thomson for 19, Eddie Byrom regarded effectively set on 32 earlier than he performed down the unsuitable line to Zak Chappell, and Thomson additionally gained an lbw shout towards Carlson on 4.
Derbyshire had been nonetheless within the sport with Glamorgan 74-3 at tea, and their hopes remained alive as they chipped away at common intervals.
Zak Chappell induced Colin Ingram to slash to gully, Matt Lamb claiming a sensible catch, after an atypical innings of 18 off 71 balls.
With Derbyshire altering their bowling often, Pat Brown had Billy Root squared up and lbw for 14, whereas Sam Conners gained an identical verdict towards Dan Douthwaite on 13 as he was tempted right into a pull.
That introduced Chris Cooke and Andy Gorvin along with 10 overs left because the shadows lengthened, however Cooke soaked up 82 balls in reaching 25 not out and Gorvin held on alongside him as Derbyshire gave up with one over remaining.
Derbyshire all-rounder Luis Reece informed BBC Radio Derby:
“There’s some legends of the sport on that record (of successive 50 makers) and I am simply me, so it is very humbling to be on that record and hopefully it isn’t the top of that run. It’s kind of surreal and also you pinch your self.
“It was a irritating begin to the 12 months ready for a chance however after I’ve bought it, I have been capable of kick on. To complete the season the way in which I’ve has most likely epitomised my profession by proving just a few individuals unsuitable, and hopefully put me in good stead shifting ahead.”
Head of Cricket Mickey Arthur added:
“Luis has been implausible within the second half of the 12 months, Glamorgan are sick of the sight of him! Alex Thomson has earned his new two 12 months contract, he bowled properly, diverse his tempo and angles.
“We thought 70 to 75 overs could be ample to win the sport, nevertheless it was to not be. I suppose it is debatable (whether or not there was an incentive for Glamorgan to chase) however we checked out it from our aspect by way of what number of overs we would have liked realistically, however we most likely bought a bit of bit too many runs.”
Glamorgan coach Matthew Maynard informed BBC Sport Wales:
“I assumed with our declaration there could be a bit extra of a good declaration by them, nevertheless it solely favoured one aspect. We needed to present a little bit of resilience and struggle to defend, and we did it fairly comfortably ultimately with 4 wickets nonetheless within the hutch. At no stage right this moment was I involved we might lose the sport.
“I feel the run-chase was stacked 99 % in Derbyshire’s favour. Luis Reece performed fantastically effectively and when he bought his second hundred of the sport, to tug out then would have been about 60-40, however to hold on for an additional 50 runs put us out of the sport.
“I can see why Derby did it, but when we would identified they’d do it that manner, we might simply have carried on and bought batting factors within the first innings.”